The Master and Deputy Chairman of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles St have said they hope the hospital is re-located to St Vincent’s University Hospital following the review of maternity services in Dublin, currently underway by the Health Service Executive (HSE). Mr Brian Davy and Dr Michael Robson, commenting in the Holles St annual report [...]
Maybe it got lost in the election. Maybe it was because it revealed a few embarrassing facts. Maybe the powers-that-be just thought our lives were too complicated and we already had enough to think about. Whatever it was, the Department of Health’s Review of the Operation of the Mental Health Act 2001 Findings and Conclusions, [...]
The UK government has agreed in principle to begin vaccinating 12- and 13-year-old girls against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer – human papillomavirus (HPV). Here’s the BBC on just how controversial teenage sex – implied at such a young age – is to parents when faced with the reality that the vaccination [...]
The Health Service Executive’s (HSE’s) Acute Hospital Bed Use Review, which found that 13 per cent of patients were inappropriately admitted to hospital, was based on a measurement tool that may not be relevant to Ireland, the Assistant Secretary General of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has warned. Mr Donal Duffy told Irish Medical [...]
A six-hour waiting time limit for patients in the country’s emergency departments is achievable and must be implemented as quickly as possible, according to the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM). The IAEM has criticised the Health Service Executive’s (HSE’s) proposed interim waiting time target of 12 hours for patients who attend an emergency department [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has denied claims by the former Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) President, Dr Christine O’Malley, that bed managers are preventing inter-hospital transfers of seriously ill patients. A HSE statement said: “The decision on whether or not to admit a patient who is in need of urgent treatment to hospital is made [...]
The average cost of treating a person in hospital falls after the age of 70, new research has indicated. The finding only applies to people who did not have a terminal illness, according to the research carried out on behalf of the Economic Social Research Institute. It found that for these people, average hospital costs [...]
The ongoing deluge of rain which is hitting Ireland might just save the lives of some of the more foolish in our society. They are the geniuses who insist on running out and sunning themselves like cats whenever so much as a flicker of sun appears in the sky. The worst offenders in this regard [...]
With the apparent Irish wedding of the century the soon-to-be-announced nuptials of Fianna Fail and the Green Party led by Trevor Sargeant (pictured above), it is probably appropriate to look at how some other media commentators look at people with Green-tinged beliefs. The comments of a well-known UK restaurant critic, AA Gill, on Greens and [...]
Some people wouldn’t even breathe for themselves if they could get a machine to do it for them. This remark is aimed at a large group of a certain type in our society. Typically, they are relatively young (15 to 45) and apparently in good health. To be fair, not everybody in that age group, [...]
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